Survival Of The Fittest

The day passed. The anger, the fear, the sorrow in the crowd did not coalesce into an unstoppable rage, did not select a target, did not make assumptions but did not find the culprit, either. The crowd chose to wait. To choose its battles wisely. It dispersed for the night, its members returning to their homes, to their own battles, quiet in the knowledge that perhaps they might not all make it back, come the morning.

The battle begun. The pieces in place.

What would await, when the sun rose?

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The day has ended with no lynch. This thread is now closed.

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The night was long. Most of the city's magical girls chose to sequester themselves, hiding in their rooms, in their beds, choosing to abandon their usual nightly hunt for witches to prioritize their own safety. Their opponent, after all, could not find them in their beds, at home, in the real world so separate from that of magic and murder. But the fear was impossible to escape, for most, and none slept soundly despite their attempts.

A few brave souls attempted to keep to their schedules, however. Some out of a sense of duty, some out of a need to keep to a routine, some hoping to find the truth for themselves. Some daring the killer to come and find them.

No one can know for sure what YACHIYO NANAMI's motivation was for going out that night. After all, she preferred to work alone.

The discovery of her corpse was a sobering moment for the magical girls of the city. Yachiyo was the oldest and most experienced among them. Her death proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that not one of them was safe.

They were afraid.

Would that fear lead to their salvation?

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DEAD:

YACHIYO NANAMI - VANILLA TOWNIE (Irina Ivanov)

Day 2 begins now and will run until Sunday, September 1st at 6 PM EST or until a vote to lynch is reached.

17 alive means 9 to lynch. The search for answers begins.

Well, fuck.

That's not good.

so uh hey i used to be 1x bulletproof

but now im 0x bulletproof

:(

dmboogie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:13 pm so uh hey i used to be 1x bulletproof

but now im 0x bulletproof

Assuming that's true, it means that we've got at least two killing factions at work here, since Irina also got hit.

What I'm curious about now is whether MS is actually telling the truth about being a Vanilla Townie, since that seems a lot less likely now that we've got one death out in the open. Thoughts?

nah, i'm willing to bet there's more than one vanilla townie in a game of this size

I agree with Boogiewoogie. We should expect a few others. Though, we shouldn't take it for granted. O:

Though,there might be a few transformative roles because of the source material? Like, a few Judases or something.

judas is a bastard role

I believe multiple killers and that boogie was BP. I'm curious tho boogs, do you think you were popped by town or scum?

probably town

i still stand by my opinion that derailing the MeS lynch is a good move, but there were a lotta people making :/ faces at me for that, and idk what motive scum would have for trying to take me out right then

Tentative boogie townpoints if he's telling a story I think he's telling the most town leaning version of it

I can believe there's a vigilante. As you said, nobody's going to suspect MS if you got bumped off since it'd be pretty obviously a frameup, so it was probably town-motivated.

I'm pretty sure it's not Cactus. He was putting himself front and center, and I'm not sure that's what a power role would do. Other than that, not sure.

I would be shocked if there wasn't a vigilante in this set up magical girls fight each other almost or more than they fight witches, usually with strong personal reasons.